State Geocoins

We need to move forward with the logo voting so we can eventually consider getting some of these.

The Georgia coin on the left was sent to me by a cache friend in Georgia and is not trackable thru GC.com. The Maryland coin was removed from a cache today and is trackable. It appears in your stats as a unique type of coin. Kinda neat huh?......poppy

May those who love us, love us. And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if he doesn't turn their hearts may he turn their ankle so we may know them by their limp.... An Old Gaelic Blessing

Coins

Use an established vendor - the poor workmanship of the cheaper online vendors who have the coins made overseas really shows up in the finished product.

Choose whether the coin will be tracked and by whom very carefully - trackable coins stay alive and moving much better than non-trackable and have much higher trade value.

Choose whether gc.com or somewhere else will track your coins. We first used travelertags.com and I personally hated the logging interface. I thought it unweildy and difficult to log coins there, and evidently others did as well, as almost all of our first year's coins quickly dissappeared. Our second batch will be loggable on gc.com and, not tooting gc's horn at all, most states are doing the same and having good results.

You have to buy, I think, 1000 numbers if they are to be tracked on gc.com, at $1.50 per number, but you don't have to use all those numbers right away, or even for geocoins. You can buy the 1000 numbers and have 500 coins minted this year and leave the balance for next year's coins, whatever.

Take time to read the ideas and experiences of other state associations.

If trackable on GC.com I'd like some too while I live in TN I grew up in Ark personally out of our coins <silver, gold and pewter> I liked pewter the best, it helps colors stand out and shows details really well, where the silver/gold the detailing was harder to see.

BTW we will try to drop this Maryland geocoin in LR on friday so that others can also log it....poppy

May those who love us, love us. And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if he doesn't turn their hearts may he turn their ankle so we may know them by their limp.... An Old Gaelic Blessing